Peter Halley

BIOGRAPHY

january 2005

1953	Born in New York City
1971	Graduates from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
1975	Graduates from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut B.A. Art History
1976	Moves to New Orleans
1978	M.F.A., University of New Orleans Has first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans
1980	Moves to New York City and has his first solo exhibition in New York at P.S. 122
In the early 1980s, Halley begins writing for Arts Magazine and becomes involved in contemporary theory. Peter Halley: Collected Essays 1981–1987 is published in 1988. Inspired by Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulation, Halley’s own philosophy becomes the basis for Neo-Geometric Conceptualism. Halley founds the magazine Index in 1996.
1996-99	Serves as Adjunct Professor, U.C.L.A., School of Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
1999	Appointed Senior Lecturer in Painting, Yale University , School of Art , New Haven , Connecticut
2000	Begins teaching as Adjunct Professor, Columbia University , New York City Receives the annual Frank Jewett Mather Award for published art criticism from the College Art Association, U.S.